Morning journal and courier., 1887-06-28

| Long before the exercises commenced the
gay eollegians, accompanied by their fair
friends, began to fill the elevated seats which
enclosed portion of the campus before an
Gent South Middle. Obi great improvement
in the reserved or blue ticket Seats Those
rough planks, the woe of previous class day
attendants, were cushioned.
The scene where the exercises commenced
was pretty one. The students seated on
low benches in the center were surrounded
by the rows of sweethearts and sisters, all
decked in bright and varied colors. The
arching elms formed green canopy over
head, through which an occasional sunbeam
found it's way The long class pipes from
Heidelberg, filed with Gallagher's best, were
passed around, and now wreaths of smoke
arose over the fair assemblage, forming, as it
were, summer mantle for it. The histories
were as of yore regulation college grinds; the
historians were frequently interrupted by the
cheers and laughter of their classmates.
Kent introduced a novelty when he presented
big Coke, whom Pritchard said only weighed
115 pounds, with an immense arctic over
shoe. Everybody enjoyed the joke, and
'97's class day was great success. Excellent
music wa furnished by Wheeler & Wilson's
band.
The programme was as follows:
/. Song-"Here's to Good Old Yale
2 Ristory--Williams Savage Burns, Bath, N. Y.
g. Song-"Wake, Freshman, Wake"
4. History-Charles Mills Hinkle, Cincinnati, o.
s. Song-''shew Me the Scotchman,''
z. History-William Kent, San Rafael, Col.
s. Histoy-Henry Lawton May, North Brook
TO- History--Albert Richard Pritchard, Roches-
r. Ivy Ode-Francis Cameron Clarke, Sing Sing,
NY.
William S. Burns, of Bath, Me-, read the
first history. Among other things he said:
One name which occurs in every class history
has hitherto been omitted, SO will tell you
something about Hartenstein. Not Ike Har
tenstein, but Fred Hart an Stein-Frederic
milan Lincoln Stein. Stein captured the
Scott prize in French last year. This sup
pose is quite natural, as the main object of
all Germans under Bismarck's rule is the
capturing of French prizes. Who at the
beginning of the freshman year would have
predicted Fred Harris poetical career? Hart
beats all competitors for poetical prizes.
For Fred is a poet and a most
sentimental poet, too. One of his earlier
productions tells of girl who wrote her
name on a shell by the seashore and then
"cast it away with a thoughtless hand"
Thereupon I" the wave sprang up with a rip
ping laugh and kissed the SHELF" and washed
IL DaCk 1ulO LIE sea- duu lu0 poem CLOSES
thus: And 1 thought, as I sighed for the
precious shell, there's one more gem in the
oceans bed'" This sort of thing did very
well for a while, but at last Fred found it
necessary to put such notions into German
verse in order to get them printed.
There was an occasion once when Henry
A. Damn won a prize, and a newspaper pub
lished his name with an " NJ +" in place of the
first " NJ" Southern newspapers copied the
item, and added that the winners name was
on everybody's lip.
There was time when Newark base ball
manager came to New Haven and told Harry
he would give him 81 200 to catch for the
remainder of the season. Harry was sur
prised. He never thought he could command
such salary. Of course he signed his name
to the contract and when the manager looked
at the signature, "Henry a. Damn" he real
ized he had made mistake. DAMS golden
dream was destroyed. Newark is still look
ing for catcher. And yet Henry A. Damn
catches a good game and good deal of
game.
Frank Clark was once member of the
Second Glee club. At concerts it was his
duty to strike Keys. And he was very anx-
ious to get on the University Glee club, hop
ing thereby to ''strike Keys" later on. He
and his roommate Pinky Perkins, like most
their door. I apologized once for leaving his
door unlocked when he said: 'That's all
right, Billy, we don't lock it half the time,
what's the good of Keys anyway" (And I
couldn't tell him, for don't know
A young lady once remarked to Hunt, of
Scranton, that she didn't like Mr.. Keller be-
cause he was so very quiet. Tracy is mot
necessarily" as he would phrase it, fond of
flirting, but it seems he tries it occasionally.
He was once walking along and there were
two pretty girls across the street. He noticed
they waved their hands in a very pleasing
manner. He waved back. They kept on
waving and he crossed the street, his face
wreathed in smiles, which only disappeared
when he discovered that they were deaf
mutes conversing with their fingers.
The second historian was Charles NJ.
Hinkle, who kept the audience in laughter
for nearly three-quarters of an hour. Some
| things he said
Baby Gardner was the first child born on
| American soil. You've all heard of Gard
| ner's Island. He has the only manor in
America. Speaking of manners, Tommy
Playford is about the most finished man in
| his class. remember him in the committee
room at our promenade and he was the most
polite man ever saw. I'm afraid he over
| did it little, but then Tommy was agent
for the champagne. For an outspoken man
John Diehl does pretty well in the chair.
| and Johns tin-tened tenor voice has ruined
| all the frescoe on the chapel walls NY dear
beloved monitor, Deacon Huntington, is
good enough monitor in his way, but he
| lacks one great requirement for perfect
monitor, Imagination. Legion has ruined
the deacon's Imagination. He has no
imagination. His gambling debts occupy
| him. Charlie Adams and Henry Ives are